Just as importantly, there is nothing in the Pidgin menus that even suggests that "Ctrl+F" does a find. There is no "Find" menu item, and there is no hint that "Ctrl+F" is the shortcut for such a menu item.

Is there a bug to add a Buddies|Find menu item, with "Ctrl+F" as its shortcut?

ctrl-f doesn't find in the buddy list (not for me at least), and the type-ahead find is a GTK+ feature that we take advantage of (and is growing more and more common in applications). I am unaware of any bug for such an addition but you are as capable of searching the tickets as I am to try to find one.

I can confirm that copying this file from other GTK does fix the issue with search, but on the other hand breaks the window control :( You can see this bug here: ​http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6594.

I can confirm that copying this file from other GTK does fix the issue with search, but on the other hand breaks the window control :( You can see this bug here: ​http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6594.

Anyone found a workaround of this?

That's exactly why we should stop using / searching for workarounds, and try to get ​the GTK issue fixed... imo.

there is new gtk 2.12.11, but I don't know how to install in on windows, anyone knows? Also will the new version of pidgin be released soon, which will use the new GTK, which hopefully fix those ridiculous glitches? Also I tried copying the libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll from 2.12.11 but it didn't work, pidgin couldn't load.

I can confirm the bug in 2.5 as well. I just don't get it why the hell the didn't include the newest GTK which would eventually fix this bug in the new release, but instead they still used the old 2.12.8.

I can confirm the bug in 2.5 as well. I just don't get it why the hell the didn't include the newest GTK which would eventually fix this bug in the new release, but instead they still used the old 2.12.8.

You're confused. There hasn't been a GTK+ release that includes a fix for this bug. When there is, we will include it (barring other issues).

Couldn't you just include older GTK with Pidgin, until there is a version where this bug is fixed? I still have my GTK from Pidgin 2.3.0, and I use the 2.3.0 installer to downgrade it if I forget about the bug and let the newer installer install the buggy GTK.
Haven't noticed any problems with that old version.

one more thing.. When I delete old folders
bin etc lib share
at C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0 and copy new one then pidgin is not opening up. But when we replace the old with new folders then its working fine..

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